Money from the leisure center was used to pay his dealer. The president of an association providing extracurricular activities in a school in Toulouse was tried on Monday for having embezzled more than 600,000 euros in subsidies from the city hall and the Family Allowance Fund (CIF). The embezzlement stopped when the auditor of the association chaired by the defendant reported the irregularities to the prosecutor’s office.
At the bar of the court, the 52-year-old defendant mentioned his problems with addiction to cocaine and crack. The money, he detailed, was used to buy drugs, but also to finance a fictitious job created to hide the outflow of money and to buy housing. The fifty-year-old’s lawyer, Sarah Nabet-Claverie, pleaded for a “descent into hell” for her client, a victim according to her of extortion on the part of the other defendants and his dealer.
Seven accomplices in the loop
Seven other people appeared for complicity, the money passed through the bank accounts of some of them, with commission involved. The prosecutor requested three years in prison for the principal, already convicted in 2017 for embezzlement. He proposed sentences ranging from four months suspended to one year against the seven other defendants.
The protagonists will be decided on their fate on October 16.